ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,555, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Mirroring and navigating content in augmented reality messaging systems" was invented by Hunter Araujo (San Francisco), Sambu Patach Arrojula (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ilteris Kaan Canberk (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Luke Cartwright (New York), Samuel Geoffrey Finding (Los Angeles), Matthew Hallberg (Los Angeles), Dmytro Kucher (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Jeremy Littel (Seattle), Charles Miller (Chicago), William Miles Miller (San Francisco) and Richard Zhuang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives, by one or more hardware processo...